SpyTool.Win32.Ardamax_b7672a2fe6 – Adaware

HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic (Kaspersky), Gen:Variant.FAkeAlert.105 (B) (Emsisoft), Gen:Variant.FAkeAlert.105 (AdAware), SpyTool.Win32.Ardamax.FD, GenericEmailWorm.YR (Lavasoft MAS)Behaviour: Trojan, Worm, EmailWorm, SpyTool

The description has been automatically generated by Lavasoft Malware Analysis System and it may contain incomplete or inaccurate information.

Summary

MD5: b7672a2fe64df7a8f7ba52381316e70f

SHA1: 29a8cf9230e1c2d9f7d010884f55c74ac01725a1

SHA256: b75efc6acab579322ef0d898ac5be69f42d4ba9958f11717220c5838389226b8

SSDeep: 49152:vXiCfebtR35YV0MPoSOKZ9RK6PA3nox0 Nk:vXdmR35YVJFDJFG k

Size: 2076672 bytes

File type: EXE

Platform: WIN32

Entropy: Packed

PEID: UPolyXv05_v6

Company: no certificate found

Created at: 2013-12-01 18:31:17

Analyzed on: WindowsXP SP3 32-bit

Summary: SpyTool. A program used to apply passive protection methods to spyware, such as obfuscation, encryption or polymorphism. The original malicious program is usually encrypted/compressed and stored inside the wrapper.

Dynamic Analysis

Payload

Behaviour	Description
EmailWorm	Worm can send e-mails.

Process activity

The SpyTool creates the following process(es):

%original file name%.exe:700

The SpyTool injects its code into the following process(es):

NLQ.exe:1704

File activity

The process %original file name%.exe:700 makes changes in the file system.

The SpyTool creates and/or writes to the following file(s):

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU\NLQ.00 (2 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU\NLQ.01 (81 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU\NLQ.02 (56 bytes)
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU\NLQ.exe (15021 bytes)

Registry activity

The process NLQ.exe:1704 makes changes in the system registry.

The SpyTool creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "61 D7 E2 8B 12 3E 17 8D 60 F5 AC AE 57 DE 0B DF"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd73-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common Programs" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd72-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd75-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{b98117e8-75ca-11e2-81b2-000c293708fb}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Personal" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\My Documents"

To automatically run itself each time Windows is booted, the SpyTool adds the following link to its file to the system registry autorun key:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"NLQ Start" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU\NLQ.exe"

The process %original file name%.exe:700 makes changes in the system registry.

The SpyTool creates and/or sets the following values in system registry:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG]
"Seed" = "D0 B1 BA AC EB 76 E4 CB A3 AC D2 5D B4 B0 B8 EC"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd73-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Cookies" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Cookies"
"Cache" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common Documents" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Documents"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU]
"NLQ.exe" = "NLQ"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Desktop" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Desktop"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd72-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{c155cd75-744b-11e2-8294-806d6172696f}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"AppData" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\Application Data"

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common Desktop" = "%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{b98117e8-75ca-11e2-81b2-000c293708fb}]
"BaseClass" = "Drive"

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Personal" = "%Documents and Settings%\%current user%\My Documents"

The SpyTool modifies IE settings for security zones to map all urls to the Intranet Zone:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap]
"IntranetName" = "1"

The SpyTool modifies IE settings for security zones to map all local web-nodes with no dots which do not refer to any zone to the Intranet Zone:

"UNCAsIntranet" = "1"

The SpyTool modifies IE settings for security zones to map all web-nodes that bypassing the proxy to the Intranet Zone:

"ProxyBypass" = "1"

Dropped PE files

MD5	File path
727c21f8a717c670dc58ea5d4320830d	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU\NLQ.01
93cc3e34cd1ceb2caa86f813d2dc9d58	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU\NLQ.02
e99ee761b237906d42a9236368f2fe01	c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VEIKUU\NLQ.exe

HOSTS file anomalies

No changes have been detected.

Rootkit activity

No anomalies have been detected.

Propagation

Removals

Static Analysis

VersionInfo

No information is available.

PE Sections

Name	Virtual Address	Virtual Size	Raw Size	Entropy	Section MD5
.text	4096	40340	40448	4.81454	7e7b96c807773399fa6a6c21cd4257fb
.rdata	45056	9232	9728	3.72958	88e41e43a2075dc0bf713901dd97f9a1
.data	57344	8032	3584	1.58991	d4668da877d58af66239b78e3837253f
.rsrc	65536	2016564	2016768	5.32624	c62830f077212af4fd355850e7d00321
.reloc	2084864	4752	5120	2.51389	e14723b14bb31fadb863bc2e41889811

Dropped from:

Downloaded by:

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Network Activity

URLs

IDS verdicts (Suricata alerts: Emerging Threats ET ruleset)

Traffic

Map

The SpyTool connects to the servers at the folowing location(s):

Strings from Dumps

NLQ.exe_1704:

.text

`.rdata

@.data

.rsrc

udPh07Y

PSSSSSSh

PSSSSSSh!

vSSSh

FTPjK

FtPj;

C.PjRV

tGHt.Ht&

.EKSWU

FTPG

FTPj

FtPS

=KNILw.tT=RCNEw

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